Vehicle-tire.



No. 670,544. v Patented Mar. 26, 190i.

, J.'PFE|FFER.

VEHICLE TIRE. (Application filed Sept. I2 18%.}

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEIcE.

JACOB PFEIFFER, OF AKRON, OHIO.

VEHICLE-TIRE.

6IECIFICl-LTION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 670,544, dated March 26, 1901. Application filed September 12, 1900. Serial No. 29.751. (N model-l vTo aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB PFEIFFER, a citiof the tread portion of the tire, and for buggies, carriages, and the like, in city driving,

zen of the United States, residing at Akron, especially, the treads of solid-rubber tires in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, will not bear more reduction relatively than 5 have invented certain new and useful Imhere shown. In all such tires also the strain provementsin Vehicle-Tires; and Ido declare comes chiefly sidewise, as when a loaded carthat the following is a full, clear, and exact riage makesashort quick turn. Then, again,

description of the invention, which will 611- there is constantly more or less side strain by able others skilled in the art to which it-apreason of our laterally sloping or rounding [O pertains to make and use the same. streets. Hence the difficulty in getting tires My invention relates to improvements in so constructed and secured as to withstand solid-rubber tires for vehicle-wheels; and the the weight and the side strain under which invention consists in the construction and they are in danger of being rolled out of their combination of parts, substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of a section of my improved tire, and Fig. 2 is a perspective elevation of a section of a wheel and of my tire in working position thereon.

1 am of course aware that solid-rubber tires having side ledges for securing them are not broadly new and that it is not broadly new to run cross-wires at intervals through the base of the tire for engagement by binding-wires in a channeled metallic rim, somewhat as shown here, and yet I am not aware that a tire having the peculiarities of construction and advantages in operation possessed by this tire has ever before been known or used.

As shown in the drawings, A represents the tire complete; B, the usual wooden rim corresponding to the follies of a wheel, and O a channel-iron rim on the periphery of part B, and for the purpose of distinguishing said parts by name the part G will be referred to containing-channels. Now I have provided against this chief danger with such tires by a novel construction of the transverse wiresor irons G, which traverse the base of the tire at regular and frequent intervals and have their ends just undercover from above at the tops of ledges 2, While their extremities project through the rubber into contact with the flanges 4:. When the tire is in working position, the tie or binding wires E are tightened upon ledges 2 and contracted so as to come down, say, flush with the tops of said flanges, substantially as shown, so that it would seem as if this were sufficient to confine the tire under any and allcircumstances, and so it is generally; but inextreme cases and under unusual and sudden whirl of the vehicle it has been found that the short cross-wires are liable to pull out on the strained side from beneath the tie-wires, and thus allow the tire to roll out of its seat and ofi the wheel. invention is directed to the overcoming of this danger, and I do successfully overcome and avert it by forming said wires or irons G as the rim proper.. with a decided upward bow or bend 5 at their The tire A is solid and has a solid base that center. This brings the pressure or weight 0 is widened at both sides by equal lateral exon the wheel always into direct bearing upon tensions 2 of a suitable depth andreferred to said portion with the certain effect of spreadherein as ledges, the said extensions having thepoints or ends of the iron or Wire latp ing shoulders or offsets 3 along their top orally against flanges 3. This pressure 00- curs even though the strain be more or less lateral or even somewhat horizontal instead of wholly downward, for the bend of the iron is expressly made to anticipate these extreme conditions. Of course there will always be some downward pressure on the tread at the time of danger, and this coming upon the bowed cross irons or wires like mine is sufficient to counterbalance the other tendency to pull out, as before, and thus the pulling out of the wires is defeated and the invention has done its Work.

Another feature of the bowed cross irons or wires is that the wires are more deeply and centrally embedded in the tire itself, thus giving more stock between it and the bottom edge, which is of especial advantage in preventing the Wires from tearing through the rubber When a hard blow or side strain tends to force the tire from its channel-rim.

What- I claim is 1. As a new articleof manufacture, a solidrubber tire having a base terminating in ledges along the sides of the tire and a series of separate springmetal strips embedded transversely therein and having their ends in said ledges and their body portions bowed outward, substantially as described.

2. In vehicle-tires, a rim with side flanges, in combination with a solid-rubber tire within the flanges of the rim and having ledges along its base and a series of irons embedded transversely in said base with ends in said ledges and having their middle portion bowed outward, and tie-Wires bearing upon said ledges over the ends of the said irons, substantially as described.

Witness my hand to the foregoing specification this 6th day of September, 1900.

JACOB PFEIFFER.

Witnesses:

M. A. SHEEHAN, R. B. MOSER. 

